Conflict
funeral can be many things. Usually, it’s a sad occasion, an event filled with tears and the sounds of sobbing parents, children, relatives, friends. However, a funeral can also be festive when the dearly departed are deemed to have lived a long and joyful life, and to have died at the right time — i.e., in their old age.
King Viserys ,Princess Rhaenyra from dragon stone and their respective entourages have traveled to the seat of House Velaryon to mourn the passing of Lady Laena and offer their support to her family.
While conducting the ceremony, Ser Vaemond squeezes in a backhanded comment about the strength of Velaryon blood, clearly directed at Rhaenyra and her two older boys. This prompts Daemon to let out a chuckle right in front of his dead wife’s coffin, and it’s all downhill from there. Even those that manage to keep up appearances aren’t exactly at ease at the reception.
Meanwhile coryls velaryon despaires at the site of his son and grandsons insistence of not being the heir
With Otto Hightower now again hand of the King tensions remain all high.
Prince Aemond Taking advantage of the fact that no one really seems to care about him, he ventures off to the beach to find a sleeping dragon without a master. Aemond’s dragon egg never hatched, and, thus, the young prince never bonded with a scaled pet. This makes him a constant target of bullying by both his older brother and his nephews. It is no wonder, then, that upon finding an abandoned dragon at the beach, the princeling would try to command and ride it. he doesn’t succeed.
The prince is received back in the castle by Lucerys, Jacaerys, and both of Laena’s daughters, who are enraged with him for trying to steal their mother’s dragon. Rhaena in particular, is seeing red, and not without reason: having grown up without a dragon, just like Aemond, she was planning on claiming Vhagar as her own. The kids trade insults and things get physical when Aemond suggests that Rhaena should ride a pig with wings like the one Aegon, Jacaerys, and Lucerys the four cousins join forces to give the prince a beating, and he fights them off with a level of strength and dexterity that only a boy bullied by his older brother is capable of displaying. But then Jacaerys pulls out a knife, and there’s little Aemond can do to stop the blade from coming his way. After being called a bastard by his uncle, Lucerys takes his brother’s knife and stabs Aemond right next to the eye, rendering him forever scarred and partially blind.
Inside the castle, everyone is screaming at everyone while the poor maester tries to work on Aemond’s face. King Viserys is angry with his men for leaving the children unguarded and allowing such a thing to happen. Alicent is mad at Aegon, who was too pass-out drunk to keep an eye on his baby brother. But it’s when Rhaenyra comes in that shit truly hits the fan. Demanding to know what happened, King Viserys learns that Aemond questioned the parentage of his grandsons. He asks Aemond who told him such terrible (ahem) lies, and Aegon takes the fall for his mother, claiming that everyone in the court knows that the boys are bastards. This leads to Viserys declaring that anyone that dares put his grandsons' lineage into question from now on shall have their tongue cut off. He then demands the children put an end to their petty squabbles and apologize to one another.
Everyone seems ready to do as they were told and call it a day, but, for Queen Alicent, saying sorry is not enough. enraged by the fact that her son had almost lost an eye, she demands that her husband do something about it. When he refuses, she decides to take matters into her own hands Alicent pulls the blade right out of her husband’s belt and jumps at Lucerys, ready to take out one of the boy’s eyes as payback. Rhaenyra places herself in front of her son, trying to fend off her former friend, but Alicent seems to have lost her ability to think clearly. Even Ser Criston sounds reasonable in comparison as he refuses to obey Alicent’s orders to severely maim one of Rhaenyra’s children. The queen comes to her senses only after drawing off Rhaenyra’s blood, leaving the princess with a nasty scar on her arm.
During this prince lucerys distraught over his mothers blood goes running to stop it from bleeding just as King viserys and in all the pandemonium lucerys drops an amulet which he found on dragonstone on the blood dripping on the floor.
This causes a white light to shine brightly forcing everyone to close thier eyes. And when they finally do they are met at the sight of King viserys his family and rhaenrya and her family seemily having disappeared.